2025—Wise Raven?

Yellowstone’s Ravens are everywhere people are. They are wise and know that some people will feed them. Many travelers don’t seem to realize that not only is it against the law to feed wildlife in any national park, feeding wildlife is ultimately detrimental to their health and well-being. Feeding also causes the birds to become nuisances. At times, especially in the winter, Ravens will break into snowmobilers’ backpacks if left unattended and even squeeze through partially open windows of snow coaches in search of something to nibble on. This Raven posed for quite a while atop a fence post near where we photographed the Moose. Although he was hoping to get fed, I treated him only to a portrait session, nothing edible. I think he realized that I got the better deal.